Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26
NEBRASKA

A Chautauqua circle has been organized at
Lonp City.
Clay Center is soon to have two new bank.
ing Institutions.
A lodge Of "Knights Of the Golden Cross
has been organized at McCook.
The county commissioners of Dundy county
have incorporated Benkleman.
Holt county is to cut 1t in the shape OF a dia-
mond, leaving O'Neill 10 the center.
Freight OF all kinds is now arriving In
Hastings thirty-eight hours after leaving
Chicago.
The Rev. J. J." st. Clair, u former Methodist
minister Of Madison, has been admitted to
the bar.
Mr.. Henry Of Lincoln has taken the con-
tract ~ furnish 200 barrels of water per hour
to the city of Paramount.
A telegraph operator named Kavanaugh,
employed at Red Cloud, has fallen heir to
5000, with s25, 0C0 In prospective,
The bondsmen of ex-Treasurer King Of
Antelope county have been invited to turn
over the amount Of the %latter's shortage
$1,000.
The Crete nurseries have about completed
the arrangements and closed a contract TO
plant $40 acres Of trees in Lincoln and Chey-
epne counties.
Voters of Sioux county recently voted upon
the proposition TO suspend the herd law In
that county, and carried the proposition by a
majority of over 800.
The company constructing waterworks at
Plattsmouth have been given by the court
until April l to complete the work, and find
it necessary to push the job in all kinds of
weather.
Hastings has plated a new city park and
will have 1T laid out by an experienced east
ern landscape gardener. The council of that
| city also extended the city limits at their last
| meeting.
A petition asking the government for reg
ular railway mail service on the Republican
Valley road between Hastings and Aurora,
has been prepared and literally signed In the
former city.
j. w. Grewell Of Saline county lately re-
ceived word OF the death Of his grandfather
at the age of l02 years. At one time during
his eventful life he was shipwrecked and
swan nine miles with a lady on his back.
w. NJ. Eaton, Of Jackson, Mich, has ex-
amined the deposits Of clay in West Lincoln,
and finds the quality fine and the beds mex
haustible. He will establish an immense fac
tory for sewer pipe and thing at that place.
1t Is said that about seycnty-ive persons in
Lincoln have been bitten by the Florida land
scheme, known as the st. Andrews Bay Rail.
4 road Land th. lad aH..oI o.
sale being barren pine tracts that will grow
nothing.
To decide upon the location Of the proposed
university and the acceptance OF a bonus, the
| Baptist association viii meet at Lincoln May
:. Omaha offers q bonHs valued at 5000 O.,
| Grand Island $4,000 aud Nebraska City
$40, 900.
A realestate firm at Beatrice. having plated
a new addition, propose, in order to push it
with the opening of the spring boom, to give
away one lot In each block to any person who
will build a dwelling house thereon In the
spring TO cost not less than 5000.
A bill, reported as more especially to meet
the case OF Mr.. Scully, who owns 10000
acres Of land in Nuckolls county, which be
refuses to sell at any price, has been intro
duced 4 in the legislature, TO make the lands Of
a nonresident alien at his death revert to the
state.
Judge Post, Of Columbus, on the 10th inst.
denied the motion for a new trial in the ease
OF Andrew L.eiss, convicted OF attempting to
wreck a dirt train near that city January %,
and sentenced the prisoner to one year in the
penitentiary. The case will DC carried to the
supreme court on error.
Jacob jacobson, a well-known citizen OF
Omaha, Sunday strangled his 3-months-old
baby with a piece Of clothes-line and then
hanged himself. His wife was absent and he
sent an older child away. jacobson was dead
when found. He was fifty years old and in
good circumstances, but had been in poor
health for several months.
Harvey Barcus, an amateur crook, was cap
tured in Onawa, Ia, by Sheriff Elwood of
Antelope county, on Monday. Barcus is
charged with forgery and obtaining goods
under false pretenses. Last November he
forged the name OF AL Hopkins 20 a check for
s34. 30 and cashed 1t, secured q suit Of clothes
on credit, and skipped the country.
Joseph S. Finley, of Wisner, one OF the pio-
neers of Cunning county died on the 18th inst.
after a lingering illness Of two weeks. He
was one OF the best known men IN the county,
and leaves behind him eight sons and three
daughters, who have grown up to be Wisner's
mosthonored and respected citizens, to mourn
the loss OF a loving and indulgent father.
The younger son, Daniel c. Emley, is joint
proprietor Of the West Point Progress, and
also fills the Office Of superintendent of public
schools.
A quiet sensation, tinged with a shade OF
gentle humor, developed Saturday morning at
Tecumseh. George Deveraux, a groceryman
OF that city, went to call upon a woDan-as 1t
is supposed. The brother OF the woman upon
whom George smiled sweetly, after a vigorous
run Of a mile or more, finally fell upon his
victim. The husband Of the woman, who
teaches school about seven miles out Of the
city, came home Friday evening and had
| Deveraux arrested. HIS bonds were placed at
$500, which he gave. The woman In the case
Is the one whom Elder Henry one time assisted
In milking u co~w-causing a great sensation
A . thn ttnna anr,a - m ~ ,nteoraant ebnn+